Author Topic: LIVE: GSLV MkII - GSAT-9 (aka South Asia Sat) - SLP - May 5, 2017 (11:27 UTC)  (Read 83754 times)

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http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=161601

The official press release gives the apogee as 169 Km. This is as expected.

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The second orbit raising operation of South Asia Satellite has been successfully carried out by LAM Engine firing for 3529.7 sec from 09.30 hr IST on May 07, 2017

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New orbital parameters hasn't been posted yet.

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Is the video showing cryogenic stage igniting from a lower stage view ? Normally the upper stages show the lower stages falling off.
Pointed out by a youtube viewer.

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Orbit Determination results from the second LAM firing are:
1. Apogee X perigee height was changed to 35858 km X 28608 km.
2. Inclination is 0.755deg.
3. Orbital period is 20hr 58min.
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Is the video showing cryogenic stage igniting from a lower stage view ? Normally the upper stages show the lower stages falling off.
Pointed out by a youtube viewer.
Yes. There is a camera at the top of the second stage pointing upwards that is meant to capture the separation and ignition of the cryogenic upper stage. I believe it was added to the vehicle from GSLV-D4 onwards inorder to study the cryo-stage ignition issue that doomed the GSLV-D3/GSAT-4 mission.

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USSTRATCOM has cataloged 2 objects (epoch May 5, 13:52 UTC)

2017-024A/42695 in 157 x 35936 km x 20.66°

2017-024B/42696 in 154 x 35940 km x 20.65°

The targetted GTO was 170±5 x 35975±675 km x 20.61±0.1°
The achieved perigee appears to be lower than the tolerable limits though apogee and inclination appears to be good. Does this indicate an under-performance?

In fact the payload is 24B.  The quoted orbit of 154 x 35940 km is from the time-averaged SGP4 TLE elements; when you calculate the actual perigee of that orbit it's actually 168 km (geodetic height).
There's a new elset today showing 24B in an SGP4 orbit of 5598 x 35988 km x 10.38 deg.

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USSTRATCOM has cataloged 2 objects (epoch May 5, 13:52 UTC)

2017-024A/42695 in 157 x 35936 km x 20.66°

2017-024B/42696 in 154 x 35940 km x 20.65°

The targetted GTO was 170±5 x 35975±675 km x 20.61±0.1°
The achieved perigee appears to be lower than the tolerable limits though apogee and inclination appears to be good. Does this indicate an under-performance?

In fact the payload is 24B.  The quoted orbit of 154 x 35940 km is from the time-averaged SGP4 TLE elements; when you calculate the actual perigee of that orbit it's actually 168 km (geodetic height).
There's a new elset today showing 24B in an SGP4 orbit of 5598 x 35988 km x 10.38 deg.
Could you tell us how to calculate the geodetic height based on SGP4 model
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The third orbit raising operation of South Asia Satellite has been successfully carried out by LAM Engine firing for 445.8 sec from 06:51:52 hr IST on May 08, 2017
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« Last Edit: 05/08/2017 05:51 am by vineethgk »

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http://www.isro.gov.in/update/08-may-2017/third-orbit-raising-operation-of-south-asia-satellite-has-been-successfully
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The third orbit raising operation of South Asia Satellite has been successfully carried out by LAM Engine firing for 445.8 sec from 06:51:52 hr IST on May 08, 2017
http://www.isro.gov.in/update/08-may-2017/deployment-of-east-and-west-reflectors-have-been-successfully-completed-0815-hr
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Deployment of East and West reflectors have been successfully completed at 08:15 hr IST and 09:30 hr IST, respectively on May 08, 2017

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Deployment of East and West reflectors have been successfully completed at 08:15 hr IST and 09:30 hr IST, respectively on May 08, 2017
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Why n2yo is showing two different objects in space? Also the satellite is not yet named or marked. Just showing as Object A and B.



http://www.n2yo.com/database/?m=05&d=5&y=2017#results

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At CelesTrak, the object are named already:

GSAT-9
1 42695U 17024A   17130.94341200 -.00000291  00000-0  00000-0 0  9998
2 42695   0.0641 250.4109 0028421 259.2972 152.1990  1.00423557    96
GSLV R/B
1 42696U 17024B   17129.87667711 -.00000273  00000-0  00000-0 0  9997
2 42696   0.1011  91.9323 0018905  94.5082 277.8991  1.00693003    61

https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/tle-new.txt

But surprisingly, these have GSAT-9 almost stable near 93.5°E.
While I thought GSAT-9 would go straight to 48°E.

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As per current TLEs The 'bird' is some 43 kms below GEO altitude and is drifting .56 deg Eastwards per day.

They may be doing in-orbit testing ( while visible over India ) before accelerating it to its final home.

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BTW,  current location is better for the geographical spread of the countries involved than 48 deg E.

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Found an interesting quote elsewhere!
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From SAC Annual Report 2015-16
    GSAT-9 is a Ku-Band satellite configured to provide communication services over SAARC countries. It consists of 12 Ku band transponders. The payload configuration was modified for the revised spectrum allocation of 13.00-13.25 GHz/11.20 GHz. GSAT-9 has 12 Ku-band channels providing services for VSAT/DTH with South Asia coverage, It also has a Ku beacon transmitter with 480E/97.3E
If I understand the above correctly, instead of 11.45...11.7 GHz, GSAT-9 carries the less used 11.2...11.45 GHz band. At ITU, for this range a "planned service" is listed at 97.3°E: INSAT-KUP-FSS(97.3E).
May well be, GSAT-9 has arrived there just about now!
« Last Edit: 05/19/2017 05:33 pm by hvdh »

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According to latest TLE, GSAT-9 was passing 100.2°E last night drifting East

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and drift rate has increased from .48 deg east/day to .75 ( being 58 kms below GEO height )

May now be racing to 48E

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and drift rate has increased from .48 deg east/day to .75 ( being 58 kms below GEO height )

May now be racing to 48E
Moving East, so racing away from 48°E!
It's becoming a bit odd now, maybe the TLE is or has been wrong, it's not uncommon to happen.
Next INSAT Ku-band slots further East would be 111.5°E or 113.5°E.

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Apparently there's been  more maneuvers and as of May 19, at 10:12 UTC, GSAT-9 was passing 97°E drifting East at a rate of 0.4°/day (orbit: 35708 x 35794 km x 0.05°)

Is SAC refering to 48.0°E/97.3°E orbital positions when it says "[GSAT-9] also has a Ku beacon transmitter with 480E/97.3E"?
« Last Edit: 05/20/2017 08:57 am by input~2 »

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Something wrong somewhere.

Last TLE seems to be problematic.

With it the s/c was at 100+ deg long.

With latest  TLE set ( 183 ) it brings back to 98 deg which can happen only if there is a massive maneuver to take the satellite at least 200 to 300 kms up and again back. No satellite operator would dare to do that at the beginning of its life.

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